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Fletching, East Sussex
Fletching maps
Historic maps of Fletching and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Fletching maps
Historic map of Fletching
Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex
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Fletching books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Fletching and the local area. View all Fletching books
Sussex County Memories
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£12
Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
Paperback
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£10.40
East Grinstead Photographic Memories
Paperback
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£10.40
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Memories of Fletching
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during www2 - were you called ''Blackie''
We had many summer holidays in this lovely village. My aunt and Uncle had moved here from Danehill, and lived firstly in the Reading Room. Jimmy Edwards lived in the village and he often opened the gymkanas in the summer. My brothers used to stay with the Auntie and Uncle, while I stayed one year with the Griffiths. Who owned the... [more]
Shared on 13 December 2006
East Sussex memories
I have just read Juliet Baxter's memories about Woodstock. My mother bought Woodstock in 1946 for her mother to live in. She lived there and bred dogs until the 1960s. I have many happy memories of staying there as a child.
I have lots of photographs of Woodstock, including a postcard from, I think, the 1930s. I went to see... [more]
Shared on 15 September 2009
I was born in London in 1938. When war broke out the following year my father sent my mother and myself down to Devon but soon after that he, and many of his regimental colleagues in the Army, rented a large country house in Horney Common and put the mothers and children there for the duration of the war. It was... [more]
Shared on 22 August 2009
My Mother had come from London to visit her brother (Jack Hames) who was working at Danehill Lodge, the name 'Pepper' were the people living there at the time. A lovely wooden gate was the entrance to the garden and house. I remember a large kitchen with a billard room somewhere near. They had a friend who had the nickname of... [more]
Shared on 13 December 2006
My family the Beards used to run the mill in the 1800s. They also had the shop on the green which was there for over three hundred years.
Shared on 25 November 2008
The Beards of Chailey Green Shop
My family were the Beards from the shop on the green next to the church. They had the shop from around 1754 to around the 1930s. George Beard the first was good friends with Thomas Turner who kept a diary, he recorded eleven colourful years of life in a Georgian village. Anyone who remembers them please keep in touch, I would... [more]
Shared on 18 September 2008
Spent many happy days as a small boy living at the "Butterbox" a wondeful place to live and explore, went to school in the village and used to spend a sixpence every Friday in the sweet shop
Shared on 14 July 2008
I do not have a specific memory myself but I think my great-granny worked here. On the 1901 census she is listed as a kitchen domestic. At the time Lady Ashburton and her children Alexander and Lilian Baring and many other servants are listed as living here. I am tracing my family tree and I am looking for any books or... [more]
Shared on 02 April 2009
Extracts From Fletching & East Sussex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Fletching, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories
Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discoveries in the 1910s. The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses at the end of the street. Sheffield Park Gardens were magnificently landscaped by Capability Brown and are open to visitors.... [more]
This is an extract from Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories.
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Villages of Sussex Pocket Album
Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discov- eries in the 1910s. The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses seen at the far end of the street. Sheffield Park Gardens were magnificently landscaped by Capability Brown and are open to visitors.They also contain the National Pinetum collection of pine trees.The southern terminus station... [more]
This is an extract from Villages of Sussex Pocket Album.
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Haywards Heath Living Memories
At the western apex of Muster Green is the war memorial, a 7.5 ton Cornish granite slab, which was unveiled in 1921 (the same year as the church clock) - both ceremonies were performed by Lord Leconsfield. The memorial bears 167 names. It is interesting to compare the height of the hedge with the one in photograph H252583. This site is always a focal point each 11 Novemeber, when the fallen of... [more]
This is an extract from Haywards Heath Living Memories.
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